Snoqualmie  Valley School District #410
2005-2006 School Performance Report
                           
  School Opstad Elementary School  
   
  Address/City/State/Zip  1345 Stillson Avenue S.E.,  North Bend, Washington   98045  
   
  Principal  John Jester  
                           
About Our School
  Who are we?                    
  Edwin R. Opstad is one of five elementary schools within the Snoqualmie Valley School District.  Our school, named after the founder of our School District, Edwin R. Opstad, is located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.  Opstad Elementary School opened in 1988.  A year later, 9 additional classrooms were added bringing us to a total of 25 classrooms. Our school features a library, computer lab, music lab, art room, gym, multi-purpose room, stage, and extra large interior hallways that we use for supplemental projects and tutoring space.  We have two modular buildings on site which house four rooms for some of our special programs and classroom project spaces. Our October 1, 2005 enrollment, in kindergarten through fifth grade, was 547 students.   Special programs at our school include: Highly Capable Program for 4th & 5th Grade, Student Academic Support Program, and Special Education.    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Our school has a full time counselor, librarian, art instructor, music teacher and PE teacher. Students have instruction weekly from our PE teacher, music teacher, art instructor, librarian, and in the computer lab.  All classes rotate through these "special classes" throughout the week.  Our school also has a speech and language pathologist, occupational therapist, school psychologist, and school nursing services.   
   
   
   
                           
What is special about our school?
  Our Students   Our Staff   Our Supplementary Programs
   
  Grades Served K-5 Certificated # Students #  
   
  % # Classroom Teachers 23 Title 1    
  Am Indian 1.00% 5 Other Support Staff 9 Learning Assistance    
  Asian 2.00% 11 Administrators 1 Limited English    
  Black 1.00% 5 Special Education 28  
  Hispanic 2.00% 11 Gifted 70  
  White 94.00% 515 Advanced Placement    
  Total 100.00% 547 Running Start    
  Classified # Other    
  Size of # Classroom Aides 10  
  Smallest Class 17 Support Staff 10  
  Largest Class 25 Volunteers 10,500  
  Average Class 21  
                           
   
  Other special features about our school:  
  Opstad Elementary School is a professional learning community.  Teachers and parents work together to analyze student achievement results and other data, to establish improvement targets and annual goals.  We identify priority areas for staff training, effective use of time and resources, and school improvement plans.  The Opstad staff has aligned our curriculum and instructional materials with the Washington State's Grade Level Expectations.  These Grade Level Curriculum Standards, in each subject area, have become our guides for instruction, assessment, selection of teaching resources, and Progress Reports. We continue to add titles to our library collection.  Opstad's library has over 15,000 titles for student, staff, and parent use.  Over 600 book sets are available for teachers to check out to supplement our new reading series.  Thanks to the support of our voters on our technology levy, we have a computer lab with 29 computers.  Every classroom has three to five additional computers.  All of our computers are networked and connected to the Internet with a filtering system, which prevents students from accessing inappropriate websites.